A Surprising Benefit Of Having More Sex

Science Just Gave Us Another Reason To Have More Sex

Here's another reason to love science: researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Coventry recently published a study that claims having sex more often could actually make you smarter.

Just over half of the respondents (37) said that they have sex weekly, 26 said they have sex monthly, and 10 said they never have sex. Those who have sex most often scored higher on a test of cognitive abilities than the others, with better "verbal fluency" (aka being able to name the most words or animals that started with the letter F in one minute.)

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Those who had more sex also did better on visual tests, though there wasn't a big difference for memory, language, or attentiveness.

The study researchers aren't sure exactly why having more sex is linked to better verbal and visual abilities, but theorize that it might have something to do with hormones such as dopamine or oxytocin that are released into the brain during sex.